Ep 210 | Board Games in 100 Moves 8,000 Years of Play | Guest: Ian Livingstone

Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher

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🗓️ 28 September 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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This is a golden age for board games. More people are playing games such as Chess, Monopoly, Risk, and Scrabble than ever before! According to market analysts the NPD Group, the global market for physical games grew by 12 percent in 2018—not many global markets are expanding that quickly. Players old and new are discovering the joys of tabletop games, but how did these games, and so many others, come to be invented? Discover the compelling stories behind the creation of the board games we know and love to play--stories that have touched every aspect of people's lives through the ages. Our journey starts 5,000 years ago and continues right up to the present day. More than 100 games are explored chronologically, from the most ancient to the most modern, allowing you to see how similar types of games relate to each other and revealing the fascinating secrets of origin and lasting appeal BIO: Ian Livingstone is a life-long board games player. He has more than 1,000 games in his collection and has been running his board games group since the mid-1980s. He is the co-creator of the multimillion-selling role-playing gamebooks, Fighting Fantasy, and the author of 15 books within the series. He was also the co-founder of iconic games company Games Workshop. Ian has invented several board games, including Boom Town, Judge Dredd and Legend of Zagor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Oh, So, You know I I was raised playing board games, card games forever mean I watched my adult family members play card
0:44.8	games and board games and then I was forced into it and then you grow into liking
0:49.2	it and liking the battle of the board game whether it's whether it's aggravation or monopoly or othello or backgammon, which I haven't played in a while by the way.
1:04.2	But I wanted to talk to Ian Livingston, who has a new book out, Board Games in 100 moves, 8,000 years of play.
1:13.0	Ian, welcome to chewing the fat.
1:16.0	How are you today, sir?
1:18.0	I'm great, thank you.
1:20.0	Looking forward to my next board game.
1:22.0	So... looking forward to my next board game. So, first, what prompted you to look into, you know, 8,000 years of play?
1:32.0	That is just fascinating well I thought after 8,000 years
1:36.3	it's time somebody told the story amen so that I've been engaged my whole life. At school I played lots of games Monopoly and played chess for the school.
1:48.0	Yeah.
1:49.0	Came a collector of games, a desire of games and my first company was a games company
1:54.8	company called Games Workshop we launched Dungeons and Dragons in the UK back in the
1:58.6	1970s.
1:59.6	Yeah.
2:00.6	The guy gets the inventor became a good friend of mine. We had the European
2:04.2	distribution rights. So I was totally immersed in games. I've got over a
2:07.8	thousand board games at home. I run a games group. I've been doing it since the
2:11.4	1980s. And I think games kind of help define
2:14.4	us of who we are as human beings and yeah there's a lot to like about them
2:19.6	yeah for sure friends or family around the table, having a lot of fun, doing deals, stabbing people in the back
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